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we're going to make Mountain Dew and the reader those cake pops Yes they do exist
is actually a cake. We start with
a cake made out of Mountain Dew and other ingredients and then we sprinkle the cake
pops with the reader knows. How fabulous is that that's every kid's dream come true
mon Dieu and the reader as they go together is the perfect junk food combination so
the ingredients that you can use that home and I'm going to make this recipe really
easy for you to do at home is you can just start with
a basic white or lemon cake mix and then you add in place of the water Mon Dieu
and I put
a table's bone of lemon extract and then follow the rest of the recipe on the box
so it's pretty simple and of course you want to have
a bag of Doritos on the side for
a later when you're going to be decorating the cake pops so you basically just
follow that recipe and bake it in the oven at three twenty five in cupcake liners
for about eighteen to twenty two minutes. And then once you have those cupcakes
done that's when they get turned into cake pops So now that you've baked your
Mountain Dew better. Actually you can find the recipe on my website is W W
W dot Amanda cupcake dot blogspot dot com or just google and me and the cupcake
and Mountain Dew take pops and I'm sure you'll be able to find it so that way you
know you've done the recipe right so once you baked it now you've got cupcakes and
the cupcake liners and this big bowl of cupcakes I have here I just took the
cupcakes right out of the cupcake liners and put them in
a bowl and the next thing I'm going to do is crumble them up with my hands and this
is kind of fun. Because you can get as messy as you want be
a big kid play in the cupcakes. And it smells amazing and smells kind of
citrusy and fizzy like Mon Dieu that's what I love about this recipe and the cake
is already really moist so it can almost be sticky enough because what we want to
do. Is add a little bit of frosting probably
a tablespoon or so of frosting. To the cupcake blend
just to make it sticky because what we're going to want to do is roll the isn't
a cake balls. You just get in there and play and you have
fun with the cake and it kind of turns into
a Plato consistency now you'll find that it may turn soggy and that's how you know
you added way too much frosting so I really recommend that you add
a little bit of processing at
a time to avoid that because you can't go back once your cake of to soggy and then
it just it won't roll right. OK so now you can see
it's kind of like
a sticky fun Plato consistency and how to roll it into the perfect ball I think I
roll my into like one and
a half and Skateball. Is you take some in your hand. And you
roll it between the palms of your hands kind of like
a rolling meatball if you've ever done that before. OK.
So now you've got
a kickball. And then looks like that so now that I've taught you how to roll the
cake pops your next move will be putting your cake pops in the refrigerator and
this recipe that I gave you makes around thirty to thirty six K.
Pops and you want to refrigerator for about
a half an hour or until their firm enough to dip into what I call and others call
can be mailed and they come in little bags like this at the craft store in the cake
decorating supply area or you can get them at cake decorating supply stores. And
they melt that's why they call and can e-mail and I'll show you what they look like
they look like
a little dis before they melt so they look like little discs like that.
And what you want to do to melt them just. They're similar to you melt on fifteen
second in command in your microwave until they're smooth and you don't want to over
microwave them because they burn really easily and that's kind of sad when they
burn because they get really really stiff and impossible to work with so now that
I've taught you
a little bit about that now we can move on to our next step and that involves using
a cake pop stick which some call
a sucker stick and you can also get this in the cake decorating supply area or in
any baking store and they use it for cookies for making candy like suckers
but really I only use them for making cake pops. So what I do is I use the candy
melts the melted candy melt as a glue because they dry within
a couple minutes so and they drive very hard and the work is the glue to glue the
cake pop stick inside your cake pop. So I put the cake pops thick in the K.
Pop. And let that set. And that works as the
glue that I was telling you about and notice how the candy melts our light green
color does because we are making money due to read O's cake pops and I used
a candy color Don't use regular food color to color these you want to find
a separate candy color because of gotten oil in it that will actually work better
with your can email if you use regular food coloring is going to stiffen up your
candy and again be impossible to dip your cake pops in. Some people also recommend
freezing your cake pops to get them to be
a good consistency for dipping and I don't recommend that because take swells as it
gets warmer and that will swell inside of the cake pop show after you dip it and
sadly it will crack I learned that the hard way in being self taught and making
cake pops. OK. So now we've got the sticks
in our cake pops. And if you look at the cake pops that I already have done.
They kind of have some fun swirls in them and crumbled on top of them so that's
kind of what I'm going to teach you how to do right now. Is how to do that. So we
have a few different colors of candy melts here we have like a dark green
a light green and
a hopping. And what I'm going to do is very use the green the light green as our
base and I always use nice to stir it if you can use brooms to and I'm going to
put
a little bit. Of the dark green in. And. A
little bit of the pink can be mo in. And then I'm going to
swirl it around using one of my take prop stick so you get like
a rainbow of fact. And that's how it's going to look on the outside of
a prop and I'm actually want to add
a little more. Just to make it more dramatic
you can add as much or as little color as you want or not color at all. OK
so what we do now that are can e-mails have dried is you want to make sure you use
a bowl that's deep enough to dip your cake pop. And you want to pretend like your
cake pop is is diving in
a pool of can email don't push it all the way to the bottom the bottom of the bowl
or the cake pop might fall off the stick you actually just want to go right in and
gracefully twirl. The cake.
Like that so you've got us whirl. Like shown here. So that if you
just want to call it
a cake pop with Candy well to the next step which I know you're writing for. Would
be crumpling up to read Oh and I'm putting them on your big pop as
a sprinkle. We have this back. And. We
have the Ziploc bag and that's already got some crumbled to readers and I'm going
to show you how uses that Bug Bag to crumble to read oh so they're small enough to
go on
a cake. I just saved and opened my eyes to look bad. So I
opened it. And just like I'm going to snack on the ants and I
code right now they look delicious I take
a whole bunch in my hand. I put them in the zip lock bag.
So I take a whole bunch and then I put as many as I want to lose
a flock bag full of the air bubbles.
And I have this humongous lovely tool here it's
a rolling pin. And this is kind of
a. Stress relieving exercise he was snatched to read I was talking about.
Some ass and roll.
OK. So now we have sprinkles.
All right so let's try. Coating our cake pop we can e-mail and then sprinkling
it with our creation. Sprinkles and think this is kind of a little bit of
a savory treat which is always just kind of nice to break away from the sweet
a little bit and add a little bit of savory. So I didn't make
a pop. And I get that
beautiful swirl of pink and green in there. And right away
while the Kate topped candy melt is the way. I open up my bag just like I'm going
to snack on some Doritos but instead. I sprinkle like
a pop lightly or have
a way however much truly don't you want. The reader Oh.
You've got a little bit of
a crunch and you've got the soft on the inside and it's going to taste just like
one of your favorite childhood snacks Mountain Dew and to read oh. And in fact I
even got
a taste tester one of my employees. Is going to come out and try one of these
We'll see if we get the star rating from you. So this is Andy he's my
employer at the cupcake mansion and all star baker and he's going to sample the
Mountain Dew cake pops which one would you like. That's all right so bite into it
and taste test the tell me what you think. Bullishness very yummy what
kind of rating would you get five. If it is the most. Awesome
so that is how you make Mountain Dew and to read OK pops you make them for your
kids when they come home from school or for
a snack at school and the recipe again is on my blog it's W W W dot
Amanda cupcake dot blogspot dot com and you can find me if you search under
Amanda cupcake on Facebook so thanks for being with me today and I hope you enjoyed
and have as much fun as I did.